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Skype server took a short break
- edvinasbartkus 15y ago"Some of you may have problems signing in to Skype and making calls. We’re investigating and hope to have more details to share soon." http://twitter.com/#!/Skype/status/73718207676022784 http://twitter.com/#!/Skype/status/73718207676022784
- fogus 15y ago<obligatory Microsoft joke>
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- lapusta 15y agoOn Win7 Deleting "C:\Users\{Your Username}\AppData\Roaming\Skype\shared.xml" solves the problem.
- fogus 15y agoAnd on OSX it's `~/Library/Application Support/Skype/shared.xml`
- phatbyte 15y agoThank you, that fixed it ! Love HN :D
- Egregore 15y agoThank you, it worked for most people in my office.
- danparsonson 15y agoThank you, did the same on Ubuntu and it came back to life (~/.Skype/shared.xml, also incidentally deleted shared.lck but not sure if that was necessary or not)
- StavrosK 15y agoMoved shared.xml out of the way, everything works again, thank you!
- teoruiz 15y agoHa, they posted the instructions for the different OSes (but Linux) here: http://heartbeat.skype.com/2011/05/problems_signing_into_skype_an.html http://heartbeat.skype.com/2011/05/problems_signing_into_sky... I wonder if all users will have to do that, because it would be a huge pain.
- pilif 15y agoLooking at that file, I see another case of severe XML misuse. If you have that amount of binary data to store, you probably shouldn't be using XML.
- bad_user 15y agoMy Linux Skype client (ver 2.2) kept crashing on me since 3 hours ago, as in when I'm starting the client it stays open for about 3-4 seconds, then quits with message "Aborted". To fix it, I first deleted ~/.Skype, then I disabled by Internet connection, then reopened Skype, then tried to login (of course it doesn't work, my net is down, but it's going in a loop mode continuously trying to connect), then re-enable my Internet connection. Well, either that or just dumb luck, but I'm not touching it to see if the method is repeatable.
- dave1010uk 15y agoDeleting ~/.Skype worked for me. Did that earlier with no effect. A diff of the broken ~/.Skype with the working one shows loads of changes, most interesting is shared.xml, which appears to have some -1 values in the old one.
- mbubb 15y agoReiterating the Windows and MacOSX fix: http://heartbeat.skype.com/2011/05/problems_signing_into_skype_an.html http://heartbeat.skype.com/2011/05/problems_signing_into_sky... For me on Ubuntu - simply moving the .Skype directory and rerunning the program worked
- danparsonson 15y agoI fixed the problem by removing ~/.Skype/shared.xml, so if you need to do it again try that.
- teoruiz 15y agoEven http://heartbeat.skype.com/ http://heartbeat.skype.com/ seems to be suffering, and when it loads it claims that everything is "working normally". Sigh.
- hamidp 15y agoOne of the good things that will come out of the Microsoft acquisition is that this will no longer happen.
- sapper2 15y agoDowngrading to Skype 4.2 seems to solve it. http://blog.alertfox.com/2011/05/mysterious-skype-crash-downgrade-to.html http://blog.alertfox.com/2011/05/mysterious-skype-crash-down...
- pearle 15y agoWow, ok -- I thought I was crazy for about 40 minutes this morning as I tried launching Skype on 4 of my computers (2 Windows 7 machines, 1 Ubuntu machine, and 1 MacBook Pro). It crashed within seconds on each and every one. It's good to know it wasn't just me. BTW, thanks to those of you who posted potential fixes.
- andrewpi 15y agoEverything seems to be back now. I didn't delete anything and launched Skype normally without any crashes.